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Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

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Mick Jagger
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 26
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Michael Philip Jagger
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